U.S. army offers free plastic surgery to soldiers

[Grojlach]

Report: Bigger breasts offered as perk to soldiers

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The U.S. Army has long lured recruits with the slogan "Be All You Can Be," but now soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on the taxpayers' dime.

The New Yorker magazine reports in its July 26th edition that members of all four branches of the U.S. military can get face-lifts, breast enlargements, liposuction and nose jobs for free -- something the military says helps surgeons practice their skills.

"Anyone wearing a uniform is eligible," Dr. Bob Lyons, chief of plastic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio told the magazine, which said soldiers needed the approval of their commanding officers to get the time off.

Between 2000 and 2003, military doctors performed 496 breast enlargements and 1,361 liposuction surgeries on soldiers and their dependents, the magazine said.

The magazine quoted an Army spokeswoman as saying, "the surgeons have to have someone to practice on."

Source: CNN


...Rrrright.

[Morgeruat]

This has long been a practice, however the waiting list is at least 24 months for most of the procedures, and they're done in training hospitals, if I had known about it when I got to carlisle barracks, I'd have signed up for the Laser Eye treatment, as it was, I found out about 2 months before I was going to get out.

[Timber Loftis]

Hey, at least there's still some good news for soldiers. If our soldiers were overpaid elite, I'd complain, but as it is, based on their salary I do not begrudge them free housing/board and/or what other few perks they get.

[Illumina Drathiran'ar]

Be all that you can be? I didn't know *that's* what they meant.

Also I must take note of the fact that "Bigger breasts" is far too close to the word "perk" to be a coincidence.

[Gnarf]

Do they even let men in, if they're really just there for bigger breasts?

[Timber Loftis]

Well, "perk" may be too innuendo-ish, I admit. I think the gummint ought to provide the social service of giving bigger breasts to any woman that wants them, military soldier or wife, or otherwise. It's certainly a heckuva lot better idea than AFDC.

[RevRuby]

Morguerat here: It does say dependants as well as soldiers, meaning children under 19 (22 if they are in college) and spouses.